The issue of U.S. forces on the Golan Heights involves large stakes for the United States.
Syria has insisted Annapolis address its demands for the return of the Israeli-held Golan Heights.
It was willing to give up the critical Golan Heights, asking little in return.
Yehudit and Yisrael Golan, both in their mid-20s, have come here with their two young children.
Ms. GOLAN: Until there will be an agreement about where we are going to live.
Finally, Syria has also decided to remove military checkpoints on the road to the Golan Heights.
Mr Golan had to bring in lorry loads of maize to keep the rest alive.
The weather and disease are worries for Mr Golan, but the biggest problem is people.
And this, he hinted, was available only as part of a comprehensive accord covering the Golan.
Syria insists on a return of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967.
What would United States negotiators demand if the Golan Heights were an American asset?
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Israel has not announced the extent to which it is willing to withdraw from the Golan Heights.
The analogy between U.S. peacekeepers on the Golan and those already in the Sinai cannot withstand analysis.
Thus, the United States would need to commit at least one division to a Golan deterrence mission.
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Ms. YEHUDIT GOLAN (Neve Dekalim): We didn't believe that it will happen, so we set with breakfast.
But Mr Golan pressed on, buying estates in Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and refurbishing and expanding them.
Lieutenant Colonel Golan Kohestani(ph) has been a soldier for 18 years, spending most of that time at war.
In one case, 60 families from one settlement arrived at a hotel in the Golan Heights on Friday.
Even the Bush Administration is said to be unhappy about his Golan initiative.
The depth and space of the Golan can buy the time for regular forces to contain a surprise attack.
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But this job can be done without giving U.S. troops a dangerous and costly long-term assignment on the Golan Heights.
Plenty of obstacles to a deal on the Golan Heights remain, but there is optimism on this front as well.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military said a mortar shell exploded on its side of the frontier in the Golan Heights.
Rebels had detained the peacekeepers, identified by the Philippine government as Filipino, in a Syrian village near the Golan Heights.
Moreover, there has been no detailed public debate in Israel regarding the stationing of U.S. troops on the Golan Heights.
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There is value in all three of these functions, but U.S. troops on the Golan are not required to perform them.
This study evaluates the benefits and costs to the United States of such a Golan mission for the U.S. armed forces.
Israel's military said Sunday its soldiers were on routine patrol in the Golan Heights when they were fired upon and responded.
In return, Israel wants Syria to accept rigorous limitations on its military forces across the Golan, all the way to Damascus.
The Bush administration still believes that the Golan is not enough to buy Syria's dissociation from its current Iranian and Lebanese allies.
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